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US Singer And Actress Whitney Houston Dies

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Whitney Houston, who reigned as pop music's queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, has died. She was 48.... (from: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk)

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SIX NATIONS 2012: Stuart Lancaster hails England resolve after Rome win

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England's interim coach Stuart Lancaster was proud of the resolve his side showed in bouncing back from a 'mad five minutes' to beat Italy 19-15 in freezing Rome. (from: www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Ragland helps Wichita State top No. 17 Creighton

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Joe Ragland scored 24 points, Ben Smith matched his career high with 22 and Wichita State moved a step closer to the Missouri Valley Conference regular-season championship on Saturday with an 89-68 victory over No. 17 Creighton. (from: uk.news.yahoo.com)

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South Carolina-Upstate beats Jacksonville 70-66

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) Torrey Craig led the Spartans with 20 points and 10 rebounds as South Carolina-Upstate erased a 12-point second-half deficit to claim a 70-66 win over Jacksonville Saturday. (from: uk.news.yahoo.com)

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Barnett leads Charlotte past Rhode Island 73-66

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Javarris Barnett scored of 16 of his 18 points in the first half and three of his teammates scored in double figures to lead Charlotte to a 73-66 win over Rhode Island on Saturday. (from: uk.news.yahoo.com)

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Saint Louis win ends La Salle home streak 59-51

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Dwayne Evans scored 16 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Saint Louis defeated La Salle 59-51 Saturday, ending the Explorers' 14-game Tom Gola Arena winning streak. (from: uk.news.yahoo.com)

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England fight back to edge Italy 19-15

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ROME (Reuters) - Holders England needed Owen Farrell's assured boot and Charlie Hodgson's opportunism to survive a Six Nations fright and beat Italy 19-15 on Saturday For their second straight win under interim coach Stuart Lancaster. (from: uk.news.yahoo.com)

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Football news in brief

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• Barcelona are defeated by Osasuna • Milan come back to defeat Udinese Barça slump at Osasuna Barcelona's hopes of capturing a fourth consecutive La Liga crown suffered a severe setback as they slumped to a 3-2 defeat at Osasuna to leave Real Madrid seven points clear at the top with a game in hand. In freezing conditions in Pamplona, the Osasuna striker Dejan Lekic scored twice inside the opening 22 minutes and Barça, who have been struggling on the road all season, laboured to react. Alexis Sánchez pulled one back for the visitors in the 52nd minute, but Raúl García quickly restored Osasuna's advantage. Barça's youth-team winger Cristian Tello grabbed a second in the 73rd but a late charge failed to produce an equaliser. Reuters López lifts Milan Milan produced a storming late comeback with goals from their new signing Maxi López and Stephan El Shaarawy to win 2-1 at Udinese and go top of Serie A. Juventus's game at Bologna on Sunday is off due to snow and, though the Turin side have two games in hand, Milan took full advantage to move two points clear, despite falling behind after 19 minutes when Antonio Di Natale's shot deflected in off Thiago Silva. López, signed from Catania last month after Milan failed to land Carlos Tevez from Manchester City, scored his first goal for the champions when he scored on the rebound 12 minutes from time after coming on as a substitute. The 19-year-old El Shaarawy, who is half Italian and half Egyptian and was starting in place of the suspended Zlatan Ibrahimovic, had a hand in López's goal and then sealed the win himself when he combined with the Argentinian again five minutes from time. Reuters guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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English FA chief: Redknapp amazing, fine manager

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Tottenham Hotspur's manager Harry Redknapp applauds the crowd at the end of the match following their English Premier League soccer match against Newcastle United at Tottenham's White Hart Lane stadium in London, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Tottenham won the match 5-0. (from: us.rd.yahoo.com)

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SIX NATIONS 2012: Jamie Roberts defends Dan Parks over Calcutta Cup mistake

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Jamie Roberts has defended his Cardiff Blues team-mate Dan Parks ahead of the Wales clash with Scotland today after the stand-off's international retirement following defeat in the Calcutta Cup. (from: www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Fulham 2 Stoke City 1: Pavel Pogrebnyak shines for Cottagers

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PAVEL POGREBNYAK'S debut goal helped Fulham on the way to victory against out-of-form Stoke in the Barclays Premier League today. (from: uk.express.feedsportal.com)

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France v Ireland - live

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• Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Mail your musings to evan.fanning.casual@guardian.co.uk • Read Italy 15-19 England match report • Get in touch via Twitter , if that's your thing • And enjoy all our Six Nations coverage in one place Rules you might need to know about. We need to play 60 minutes of this match for it to constitute a match. After 60 minutes the result stands; before 60 minutes and the game will have to be replayed. There's yet another tense looking pitch inspection taking place right now. The surface is frozen in parts, apparently, but underneath it's soft. They're now putting blowers on certain parts of the pitch to try and thaw it out. Ah, Paris in the spring. Paris just before Valentine's Day. Lovers stroll arm-in-arm along the Seine; bohemians read poetry in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont; diners eat sumptuous meals in candlelit bistros and 30 cauliflowered-eared rugby players freeze their b******* off in the Stade de France. The good news is that we have a game tonight. After a pitch inspection 90 minutes before kick off the surface at the Saint-Denis has been deemed playable and so Ireland will set about trying to secure only their second win in Paris since 1972. And boy do they need it. With all the talk of referees and red cards it was somewhat overlooked last week that Ireland blew it. Plain and simple. They capitulated, choked, gave in, conceded ground and paid the price. Brendan Fanning has outlined five areas Ireland need to fix: their tactical thinking, passive defending, selection dilemmas, Declan Kidney's personnel problems and the failure to transfer the form of the provinces to the international stage. Will we see any, or all five, of these addressed tonight? Or will they stand shivering in the snow as a rampaging France cement their reputation as Six Nations favourites? All will be revealed very shortly. Here are the sides that will go into battle ... France team 15 -Maxime Médard 14 -Vincent Clerc 13 -Aurélien Rougerie 12 -Wesley Fofana 11 -Julien Malzieu 10 -François Trinh-Duc 9 -Morgan Parra, 1 -Jean-Baptiste Poux. 2 -Dimitri Szarzewski 3 -Nicolas Mas 4 -Pascal Papé 5 -Yoann Maestri 6 -Thierry Dusautoir (captain) 7 -Imanol Harinordoquy 8 -Louis Picamoles Replacements: 16-William Servat, 17-Vincent Debaty, 18-Lionel Nallet, 19-Julien Bonnaire, 20-Julien Dupuy, 21-Lionel Beauxis, 22-Maxime Mermoz Ireland team 15 -Rob Kearney 14 -Tommy Bowe 13 -Keith Earls 12 -Gordon D'Arcy 11 -Andrew Trimble 10 -Jonny Sexton 9 -Conor Murray 1 -Cian Healy 2 -Rory Best 3 -Mike Ross 4 -Donncha O'Callaghan 5 -Paul O'Connell (captain) 6 -Stephen Ferris 7 -Sean O'Brien 8 -Jamie Heaslip Replacements: 16-Sean Cronin, 17-Tom Court, 18-Donnacha Ryan, 19-P O'Mahony, 20-Eoin Reddan, 21-Ronan O'Gara, 22-Fergus McFadden. Mr. It's All My Fault Whatever Happens. Dave Pearson Six Nations 2012 France rugby union team Ireland rugby union team Six Nations Rugby union Evan Fanning guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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David Cameron should stand by his courageous health minister

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Andrew Lansley is sure that without his reforms the NHS will fail, writes Peter Oborne (from: telegraph.feedsportal.com)

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Bolton 1-2 Wigan

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Wigan's James McArthur taps in a second half winner to secure a vital victory over fellow Premier League strugglers Bolton. (from: www.bbc.co.uk)

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Ennis forced to dig deep before raising her game

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Looking ahead to the main stretch of the indoor season, and the longer haul to the London Olympics, Toni Minichiello insisted on Friday that he and Jessica Ennis would not be getting wrapped up in what Tatyana Chernova might be doing. "No," Ennis's long-time coach said when asked about the Russian who relieved his charge of the world heptathlon title last summer, "it's about Jess getting better at being Jess." (from: www.independent.co.uk)

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No. 20 Mississippi St. goes down in OT

Mississippi State head coach Rick Stansbury directs his team during an NCAA college basketball game in Starkville, Miss., Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Georgia won in overtime 70-68. (from: us.rd.yahoo.com)

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Dunfermline 1-4 Rangers | Scottish Premier League match report

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Lee McCulloch scored his first goal of the season as Rangers fought back from behind to claim a 4-1 win and deny Dunfermline their first home victory of the campaign in the Scottish Premier League. McCulloch played as a striker earlier in his career and rolled back the years by starting up front at East End Park, as Daniel Cousin, set for a return to Rangers, watched on from the stand. McCulloch struck after David Healy cancelled out Andy Kirk opening goal for Dunfermline and Sone Aluko and Salim Kerkar then added a goal apiece in the second half to earn Rangers all three points. Rangers made one change from the side who crashed out of the Scottish Cup to Dundee United last week for the clash with the Pars. Mervan Celik, who lasted just 45 minutes of his first start, was dropped to the bench and McCulloch was drafted into the starting line-up. Dunfermline were without on loan Rangers midfielder Kyle Hutton, while Iain Turner failed to recover from injury meaning Chris Smith was again in goal. It was McCulloch who had the first real chance when he collected from Healy and saw an early effort from close range blocked. But the home side could have taken the lead when David Graham burst through on goal only to see his shot crash off the post, before Liam Buchanan's rebound effort was blocked by goalkeeper Allan McGregor. Dunfermline were celebrating with 16 minutes gone though when Paddy Boyle's deep cross from the left found Kirk at the back post and he slotted home. Rangers were back on level terms within eight minutes when Maurice Edu saw his shot blocked by the goalkeeper after a one-two with McCulloch, and Healy pounced to rifle the loose ball into the back of the net. The Scottish champions were threatening again when skipper Steven Davis had a go and his shot bounced onto the crossbar and over. The visitors continued to press for a second goal and a Davis corner eventually broke for Carlos Bocanegra but his volley was well off target. The pressure paid off after 39 minutes when a Davis free-kick found Bocanegra and he teed up the shot for McCulloch to lash home his first goal of the season. McCulloch could have added to his tally shortly after the restart when he met a Healy cross and nodded just over. Rangers made a double change with just over an hour gone when Kirk Broadfoot and Celik were thrown into the action for Kyle Bartley and Healy. Rangers increased their lead further after 70 minutes when Aluko raced onto a pass from McCulloch and sent an unstoppable left-foot shot into the top corner from 25 yards. The winger then came to the rescue at the other end when he cleared an Alex Keddie header off the line. Celik could have added his own name to the score sheet with a swerving effort that dipped just over the crossbar. It was another substitute, Kerkar, who had the final say when he dispatched a low shot past Smith with five minutes to go after a couple of minutes on the park. Scottish Premier League 2011-12 Dunfermline Rangers Scottish Premier League Press Association guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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Football racism row flares up as Luis Suárez snubs Patrice Evra handshake

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Sir Alex Ferguson says Uruguyan player is a disgrace and should not play for Liverpool again Sir Alex Ferguson has branded Luis Suárez a "disgrace" who should never play for Liverpool again, as the racism row between the striker and the Manchester United captain, Patrice Evra, continued. Speaking moments after his side's 2-1 victory over Liverpool at the United stadium, Old Trafford, United's manager said he was stunned by the Uruguayan's refusal to shake hands with Evra before kick-off. Suárez pointedly ignored Evra's hand. It was their first meeting since Suárez served an eight-match ban after being found guilty of racially abusing the 30-year-old Frenchman. Rio Ferdinand, the former United captain, then refused to shake Suárez's hand. Ferguson said, given the context, Suárez's snub might have led to crowd trouble. "I couldn't believe, I just could not believe it. Patrice told me this morning, 'I'm going to shake his hand, I've nothing to be ashamed of.' But then Suárez refuses. He's a disgrace to Liverpool Football Club," he said. "Some players should not be allowed to play for Liverpool again, the history that club's got and he does that. In a situation like today he could have caused a riot." The Liverpool manager, Kenny Dalglish, retaliated by arguing it was completely wrong to blame Suárez and that media scrutiny had inflamed the handshake incident. Liverpool fans also accused Evra of dropping his hand before Suárez approached. After the game, Evra attempted to provoke Suárez by running in front of him towards the home fans, waving his arms in celebration of the victory. Ferguson said afterwards: "He shouldn't have done that." David Cameron is expected to step into the row over racism in football by holding a "round table discussion" with the sport's authorities and players' representatives at Downing Street, according to the Sunday Telegraph . Race issues Luis Suárez Sir Alex Ferguson Manchester United Liverpool Mark Townsend guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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SPL round-up: McCulloch inspires Rangers to a 4-1 victory at Dunfermline

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• Dundee United win 5-1 at St Johnstone with two own-goals • Kilmarnock and Hearts draw 1-1 in an ill-tempered clash Lee McCulloch scored his first goal of the season as Rangers fought back from a goal behind to win 4-1 and deny Dunfermline their first home victory of the season in the Scottish Premier League. McCulloch struck after David Healy cancelled out Andy Kirk's surprise 16th-minute opener and Sone Aluko and Salim Kerkar then helped themselves to a goal each. Hibernian moved a point clear of the bottom club Dunfermline with a goal less draw against Aberdeen , but it could have been more for the Edinburgh side at Easter Road. Hibs had appeals for a penalty turned down midway through the second half after the ball appeared to hit the Dons defender Andrew Considine's arm. A calamitous pair of own goals from St Johnstone and an incredible three goals in the final seven minutes gave Dundee United a stunning 5-1 victory in an action-packed Tayside derby. Saints dominated much of the first half at McDiarmid Park but found themselves a goal behind at half-time after Steven Anderson had bundled into his own net following a blunder by the keeper Peter Enckelman. A second own goal on the hour mark, from Callum Davidson, doubled United's lead before Anderson made amends for his own goal by pulling one back. However, headers from Johnny Russell and Jon Daly ensured that United would finish worthy victors. Enckelman made another mistake in injury-time as his attempted clearance struck his team-mate Dave Mackay to allow the substitute Milos Lacny to roll a fifth into the unguarded net. St Mirren and Motherwell had to settle for a share of the spoils in a feisty encounter at St Mirren Park. The home side had by far the best of the first half and Darren Randolph pulled off a wonderful save to deny Gary Teale after sustained pressure. Third-placed Motherwell found their stride after the break and only an incredible stop from the St Mirren keeper Craig Samson prevented the visitors from leaving with three points from a bad-tempered clash. Hearts and Kilmarnock shared a 1-1 draw in a lively match at Rugby Park. Paul Heffernan bundled home 10 minutes from time to put Killie on course for three points but the substitute Suso Santana rose to meet a Paul McGowan cross and level at 1-1. Both sides finished the game with 10 men after Dieter Van Tornhout and Jamie Hammill were sent off in the second half. Scottish Premier League 2011-12 Dunfermline Rangers Kilmarnock Hearts Hibernian Aberdeen St Johnstone Dundee United St Mirren Motherwell Scottish Premier League Nial Briggs guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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Saturday Sundae: Thierry Henry takes curtain call for Arsenal

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Arsenal legend scores on last Premier League game and Liverpool manager makes a fool of himself MEN OF THE DAY Thierry Henry scored a late winner in his last Premier League game, while Sky reporter Geoff Shreeves skillfully nudged Kenny Dalglish into making a fool of himself, then ended up trending on Twitter. MISS OF THE DAY Through on goal in the last minute against Bolton, Wigan's Hugo Rodallega fell over. TWEET OF THE DAY Emmanuel Frimpong, winding up Liverpool fans with his verdict on the game at Old Trafford: "Liverpool supporters saying Evra celebrated like he won the League. Am surprised they remember what that looks like LOOOL." MIX-UP OF THE DAY Describing Sunderland's goal against Arsenal for Sky, Robbie Fowler repeatedly pinned it on an error by Schalke's Christoph Metzelder. Per Mertesacker was blameless. PUB QUIZ OF THE DAY The last time Spurs scored four before half-time, against Southampton in 2000, who scored a hat-trick? (Answer below) STAT OF THE DAY 9: Grant Holt's Norwich goal tally – the same number that Andriy Shevchenko managed for Chelsea in three seasons. PLUS: ANSWERED QUESTION Will Roman Abramovich be back on the Chelsea training ground this week? Definitely. But will Villas-Boas be there? Premier League 2011-12 Premier League guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (from: www.guardian.co.uk)

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